One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.